The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office is asking residents to be on guard for possible card skimmers on local gas pumps.
Skimmers are electronic devices that “skim” information from credit and debit card magnetic strips when the cards are swiped.
The sheriff’s office issued the “skimmer alert” on its Facebook page Tuesday afternoon.

Indian Land incorporation organizers have reported that about 100 roadside political signs are missing, and the group’s spokesman blamed a “coordinated effort” by the opposition.
But the main anti-incorporation group rejected that assertion, saying they would never do such a thing.
Voters for a Town of Indian Land President Richard Dole told a sheriff’s deputy Feb. 2 that he’d received numerous complaints about his group’s “Vote Yes” signs being missing.

Four months after refusing to let Lancaster County run environmental tests on the historic Springs Block, Humana has sold the downtown landmark to a German investor.
The property was purchased for $60,000 by a company called STB on Main LLC, according to the Lancaster County Register of Deeds office.
The German investor behind that company is Ingo Kübler, according to City Administrator Flip Hutfles and County Administrator Steve Willis.

Eight-year-old Railee Brown of Lancaster had a whirlwind week in New York City with her mom and grandmother while taping several episodes of the new ABC game show “Child Support.”
She got celebrity treatment, including limo rides and a fancy hotel with a view of the Empire State Building. When she wasn’t on set, she visited the Statue of Liberty, ice skated in Rockefeller Square and learned to hail a cab in the Big Apple – not bad for a little girl from a small town.

On this Valentine’s Day, we bring you a love story with a 26-year hiatus in the middle.
Crystal Bradley and James “Mac” McInvaille have a wedding scheduled for July 14 – the second time they’ve made such plans.
Crystal – then Crystal Doster – was a senior at Andrew Jackson High School when she met Mac in 1985. He was an AJ grad, four years older, and her parents were skeptical at first. She called him every day at lunch from the pay phone in the AJ hallway.

Once warm weather gets here, local honeybees will have 10 acres of new bee-friendly food plots in the county to forage for pollen.
The Lancaster County Beekeepers Association planted the plots through a $2,500 grant from the national Bayer Feed a Bee initiative.
“Our honeybees are having a challenge finding adequate food forage due to seasonal droughts, as well as land being developed,” said local beekeeper Dale Starnes.
The local beekeepers’ plot project was one of 71 projects in 34 states selected for the grants by Bayer.

Dr. Kenneth Baker is giving up his OB-GYN practice in Lancaster and moving to Arkansas.
The 59-year-old physician didn’t want to relocate, but the medical industry’s changing economics have left him little choice.
A decade ago, Baker’s practice was earning him about $150,000 a year. Now, he says, that’s down to barely $60,000. To make ends meet, he has taken on work as a substitute physician, traveling across the Carolinas to do fill-in shifts.

Local Democrats held their county convention Thursday night, electing officers, plotting election-year strategy and hearing from candidates for Congress and governor.
Archie Parnell, running for the 5th District congressional seat for a second time, spoke briefly to the packed crowd at USC Lancaster’s Carole Ray Dowling Center. So did Florence attorney Marguerite Willis and Kirkland Smith, the wife of state Rep. James Smith of Columbia.
Willis, James Smith and Charleston businessman Phil Noble are seeking the Democratic nomination for governor.